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Sue&Pasquale
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confession
Sue&Pasquale
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yes I use the tv,ipad and ipod as a babysitter sometimes. Anyone else? My son will sit on my bed with the ipad while I get a shower in. Sometimes I will have him watch his program on tv while we eat.
please tell me Im not the only one!
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Re: confession
For showers, making dinner, or just when I need a break - yes. (Though she has set times she gets to watch it, so those activities coincide with those times often.)
For dinner, though, absolutely not. Eating while watching TV is a good way to teach your brain to ignore signals of being full and to learn to overeat. It's just a really unhealthy habit. (One that I'm still trying to break myself of!) We would do this for lunch occasionally before, but she got too into it, so I'm not doing food while the TV is on any more.
And if it's a time when we're all together, I want us to be interacting with each other, not a screen. I grew up in a home where we regularly ate dinner in front of the TV every night, and it's an unhealthy habit I don't want my daughter to get into. (I'm not trying to say it's evil - if we're all horridly sick with the flu again, we'll likely be eating at the TV on the couch because I don't want to get up, if we're eating at all!)
New nursing baby = heck yes to TV! Super Why is my best friend.
I'm have to say my daughter knows how to work my phone almost as well as me. She knows what games to play and how to get onto Disney Jr to watch her shows. She's in love with Mickey Mouse, and I don't have a problem at all letting her watch that and Little Einstein. They're educational and fun!